A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and children, were taken.
Jon Voight
as Jacob Samuelson
Tamara Hope
as Emily Hudson
Trent Ford
as Jonathan Samuelson
Lolita Davidovich
as Nancy Dunlap
Dean Cain
as Joseph Smith
Terence Stamp
as Brigham Young
Shaun Johnston
as Captain Fancher
Franklin E. Levinson
as Captain Baker
Daniel Libman
as Reverend Grant Hudson
Barbara Gates Wilson
as Martha Hudson
Huntley Ritter
as Robert Humphries
Jon Gries
as John D. Lee